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CENTRAL

KATEGO

SHOWING TO-DAY

TO-DAY AT THE CINEMA

Queen's.

HONG KONG.

The Lyons Mail

Mother's Millions."

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.13 and 9.20 p.m.

Central,

King's,

The Picture that wand

Rocked a Nation

♪

with Laughter.

NOW UNUSUAL- DIFFERENT-MYSTERY

-DRAMA-COMEDY---

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ROMANCE THRILLS!

Who

Is

She ?

Mother's MILLIONS

Who is she?--You'll find out when you see the comedy they're all talking about

the picture that introduces you to the most amazing set of young folks you've ever heard of....'. SEE the picture that bubbles over with merriment without the aid of Gin, Jazz or Jamboree With MAY ROBSON, Francis Däde, James Hall. Lawrence Gray, From the play by Howard McKent Barnes..

NEXT CHANGE

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN

IN THE WORLD- was the unhappiest.. woman on earth!

See the story

of her tragic love

Constance BENNETT

The COMMON LAW

́Har Anast rola, her areolest triumph since "COMMON CLAY"!.

Star.

وا

Her Wedding Night,” With Clara. Bow.

Dawn Patrol, *-

KOWLOON.

Good-News."

Queen's,

COMING.

"Taughing Sinners"

With Joan Crawlord, "Love is Like That" Oh Sailor Behave,”

Central.

King's.

The Common Law,” '·

Charley's Aunt."

With Charles Ruggles and

Jano Collyer..

Sifonce."

With Clive Brook. "Meroly Mary Arin.” "Bad Girl.

World.

Star.

Tilly Bloomsbury"" A British Picture..

High Society. Blues." Beloved Martyr." (Chinese Fila).

*Deannite."

Love's Identity"

(Chinese picture),

"Be Yourself.”

(Part 2)

Ep. 4 (Chinese picture),

The Ghost Train,” New York Nights." “Viking.""

Ronkery Nook.".

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932.

SHOWING TO-DAY

The best man

wing the "It"

girl in a marriage

muddle like this!

KING'S

AT

1920, 7.15

9.30 PM

Prettier "Fler" Than Ever!

CLARA BOW

IN

"Her Wedding

Night"

A Paramount Picture

with

Ralph Forbes, Charlie Ruggles and Skeets Gallagher

NEXT CHANGE

COMMENCING SUNDAY, TOTE JAN..

SILENCE

Garamount Picture

with

CLIVE BROOK. Peddy Shannon Charles Starrett-

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE.

TEL. 25318.

MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.

James Hall and Frances Dade in "Mother's Millions "' at the

"Gentral Theatre.

"HER WEDDING NIGHT."

AT KING'S THEATRE:

CLARA, RALPH FORBES

AND RUGGLES."

Her Wedding Night," reveal- ing the amusing and romantic ad- ventures of a red-haired movie star who tries to escape her admirers, and a song writer whose lady friends make life miserable for him, is the theroe of Clare Bow's new hit at the King's Theatre to-day.

"Her Wedding Night," is an Avery Hopwood faree, with a auo- cession of comedy situations that bubble and froth in rapid crescendo to an exciting climax.

Ralph Forbes, the Handsome hero. of Beau Geste," and recently seen in "A Lady of Scandal,” with Buth Chattertou, gives full play to his talent for straight farce in this show And Charlie Ruggles, play. ing in his first Paramount Holly- wood studio pieture, brings his fresh humour to an important sup. porting role. Also, there's Skeots Gallagher's laugh-provoking Bori ousness to add spice to the comedy, and a trio of Hollywood beauties, Goneva Mitchell, Rosita Morena and Natalie Kingston,

MOTHER'S MILLIONS.acterizations which made the ori breakers and preparing to escape.

FELLER AND HER

CHILDREN.

سمجھ

The story opens in Paris wheed' Clara in battling a host of heart- ginal play such, a success.

to the south of France. On the The story deals with the trials trip, she is marooned at a small TALE OF A WOMAN ROCK- and tribulations of the son and sloping bride, wadded against her way-station and mistaken for an daughter of the richest woman in will to Skeets Gallagher, and, as the world. The girl is eagerly be is travelling under an assumed sought in marriage by ne'er del name, she becomes the bride, by proxy, of a man she has never even wells and fortune bunters. The mot. When the strangely paired "Mother's Millions," which open-boy is a mark for his mother's couple does meet there's a delight-

ful love story. ed yesterday at the Central Thea greatest rival, for the mother 18:1 dominating figure in Wall Street, tre, is an example of a good play

tyran in her own home, en transferred almost bodily to the devouring to bring up her children screen, and with equally good, 11 to be self-reliant, and to educate not better, résults. Howard Me. them in the school of life so that Kent Barnes wrote the play ori- they can retain and enjoy the ginally for May Robson, for whom heritage of wealth which she will it proved a financial and artistic leave them. The unexpected twists success. It was this success which of this story are highly effective and inspired her to use it for bor talk last night's audience enjoyed it all

thoroughly. ing picture debut..

Winnifred Dunn is credited with the adaptation but the chief thing

Frances Dado is one of the mont beautiful of the new screen genuch; James Hall and Lawrence

in-

is the vital and gripping perform Cray bear their roles with distinc- anos of May Robson. This is not tion. A word of praise should be: to be wondered it. The play was given Lillian Harmer for re written for her, and James Flood markable piece of characterization. very wisely retained the splendid Edmund Bresse of courts, is always dramatic olimaxes, the appropriate good, and is especially effective in comedy relief and the stage char- the role of William Baminnaen,

-CHARLES-RUGGLES UNA

JOAN CRAWFORD IN "L'AUCHING SINNERS"

WEARS ODD MAKEUP IN NEW PICTURE.

SILENCE.

CLIVE BROOK IN A MELODRAMA.

Silanes," the now Clive Brook- Marjoris Rambeau-Peggy Shannon motodinama, which comes to the King's Theatre. next Sunday is a gripping story of a man's betrayalį of the woman he loves, and his final

awakening to a greater love when his daughter is imperilled by the misdeeds of his own past...

Clive Brook, who plays the lond- ing role, is soon as the weak and handsome crook, whose love brings heart-broak to the woman who loves hia

Twenty years glaped between

| the early and final netion of "the story. Brook meets his daughter, grown to young womanhood, on- gaged to be married. Her father's past threatens her happiness, and' Brook, awakes at last to his own worthlessness, aucriAces himself to

savo her.

QUEENS

SHOWING TO DAY Ar 2.80, 6.10, 7.15 AND 9.20.

THE CELEBRATED DRAMA OF THE ENGLISH STAGE.

NOW

AN ALL BRITISH SUCCESS

SIR JOHN MARTIN: HARVEY

"Silonce brings Peggy Shon- non, the ad-haired beauty recently saen in "The Secret Enll," in two

of Dronk. The two characters which she portrays never meet during the action of the story, hub the oppor. tunity to play two contrasting röles gives an exraordinary opportunity. Marjorie Rambeau, the popular stage and serton actress, has the other leading fominine rôle.

roles, that of the wife and daughter The Lyons Mail

The moving picture brings one of the most popular stage molodramas to the screen. #Silence," a few seasons ago, was one of Broadway's hits. Paramount employed its an- thor, Max Marcin, to prepare the film serint and assist in the direc tion with Louis Gasnier. Marcin Has fately turned to picture direct- ing, and, with Gasnier, directed

The Lawyer's Secrot."

LAUGHS AT THE "STAR"

THREE LIVE GHOSTS'

GREAT FILM.

A

Joan Crawford hides her beauty behind grotesque makeup in the opening scenes of Laughing Sin- Bers," her new Metro-Goldwyn- Mayor starring vehicle which willing picture now showing at the come on Sunday to the Queen's doubtedly one of the funniest films Star Theatro, Kowloon, is un- Theatre.

"Three Live Chosts," the talk

ever shown on the local screen It is ons scream from start to

In thear scenes Joan performs a rube" dance number in a road-finish, and should not be missed by house, donning an eccentric make-those who like to hear real cock- up for the act, farmer's overalls,ncy as she is spoke." big straw hat, her face hidden by Though produced in America, a clown's nose and spectacles. The English actors predominate, giving purpose of the makeup is to accen- the production tunto the paties in the dramatic English atmosphere. incidents that follow immediately, disclosing the broken heart of the madeap right club entertainer.

Harry Beaumont directed the film from the Kenyon Nicholson stago hit. The Torch Song "

delightfully

The scone

is laid in London after the Armistice when three soldier. friends,. two officially shock, return home from German "dend and one crazy from shell. prison camps

The character act

ing throughout is excellent and the denouement is as startling as In it is unexpected.

share leading man honours.

Neil Hamilton and Clark Gable

eluded in the cast are Marjorie "Thres Live Ghosts has our Rambenu, Guy Kibbes, Cliff Ed unqualified approval. wards and a number of others. itt

Don't miss

The Intellectual Vamp

Has Arrived

BY ERNEST BETTS.).

If you want to see us distinguish-

Johndy, of course, wants to marry

ed, witty and arresting piece of acts Sara, especially after that alorm of

ing, go and sea Miss Ina Claire

Rebound"

In

tears in the garden.

Her policy up to then had been to say nothing, or to talk so lightly something deep bobind it. of love that you know there was

Miss Claire, in this picture, is the she is not a vamp in the ordinary koreen's intellectual vamp, and yet ange, he is much too charming

Miss Claire excele in these subtic for that, and loves with for foo deep feminine thrusts, and she vamps a passion.

her husbend back by sheer intellec if you watch her in this litual combat. She hab the frightful though it is more of a play than air of innocence you sometimes get alm-you will notice that she in a person who knows everything. acorns all the tricks of the accom- And she is quick as lightning with plished man-killer. She doesn't put her verbal retorts. an a gramophone record, or wait for the moon to come up or sing into ber young man's ear with the object of pinning him to matrimony.

Once, and once only, she bursts into tears, and is pursued into, a leafy glade by an all-talking cavalier But otherwise her tactics are alarmingly unorthodox. A

I enjoyed her performance im- mensely, because although Mias Claire is beautiful, she acts as if beauty doesn't really count when it comes to a crisis with the man she loves.

Sincerity

Beneath all her mockeries you can

more man, with nothing but his see how passionately sincere she is: brains and a cocktailshaker to help And she has a sort of check, him, cannot stand up to them. At burning pride touched with awost leant, it was impossible for Bill tones, which, on me at least, had i

most destructive effect.

・20 80.

"

Two Types of Vamp,

Misa Claire, as Sara in the film i married to the totally worthless Bill Truesdale (Mr. Robert. Ames) After a month of marriage Hill falls for Evis (Miss Myrna Loy), a vamp of the most purple dye.

The two have fatal lunches to gether in Paris cafon; they stagger from on har to another, laughing loudly, And Ina hates it, and gets nervier avery minute, and more in volved in romantic hysteria.

The story, unfortunately, is too light for its characters. In the end, after getting out divores papers, the returns to Ball, though he has sworn nover again to beg for his love.

The acting of Mr. Robert Amos, Mr. Robert Williams (as Jobinity); Miss Myrna Loy, and Mr. Hale Hamilton is first rate. And while this is one of the best and brightest domestic comedias I have seen," I must warn you of its optical frani, fade.

She has scenes of stinging satire The émotions" fy” about Bil With her father and her young picture stojac wyhare witrikamike. "friend Johnny;

Evening Standard.

With

NORAH BARING BEN WEBSTER

ALSO SHOWING CINE REVIEW

and

JOINING UP

NEXT ATTRACTION

JOAN.

CRAWFORD

is here

In a

dramatic

talkie smash-

LAUGH

toith

SINNG

HellHamilton Clark, Gable Marjorie Rambeau Gay Kibbee

STARI

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30,5,20, 7.20 AND 9,20